Thread: Toro or John Deere or Kubota

I am stuck on picking out a ZTR. I have been shopping around a lot and I am down to these mowers because of price/location/dealer. I have to stick with a 48" deck because of gates I could possibly do 52" but the 48" is safer.

Just bought a 710 yesturday with 23 ponies a 48in deck 7iron deck nothing can come close. I actually sold a scag cub 19kawi 48 for this mower.Bought a 830 last year I myself havent seen nothing that will cut wet grass or dry thick grass like the john deere 7iron as of right now I cant see using nothing else.Used scag since 2000 demoed Deere fall of 07 and used deere every since.

Out of those three mowers, I can say that you will like the Deere or the Toro the best...but I don't know anything about the Kubota's.

The turbo force deck is a great deck that leaves a very good cut. But I like the Deere 7-ironII deck a little better, it handles wet grass much better and leaves an even better cut. But thats just my experience.

I think I have it narrowed down to Toro or JD. I am going this weekend and my father-in-law is looking to get a mower as well. He only buys JD so I hope we can get a better deal for picking up two of them.

I was told to be weary of the Kholer motor on the JD's because it was a downgrade from the Kawa. They put those in there to keep the price down...

The kohler engine in the 710 is the Kohler Command engine which is a good engine. You really aren't stepping down any from the Kawi's. But typically mowers with kohler engines run a couple hundred cheaper than mowers with kawi engines. But anyway, you are getting a good engine still.